Texas Co. v. Lee’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
152 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 155 later decisions — most recently July 2017 · most notably State v. Oakley (1962), Cherb v. State (1971)
152 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on 68 Tex. Crim. 295 - Burford v. State · Watkins v. Smith · 48 Tex. Civ. App. 571 - Teagarden v. Patten · Auerbach v. Wylie · Bros. v. Patton
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 155 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Such incompetent [hearsay] evidence can never form the basis of a finding of fact or of the judgment of a court; and this is so whether it be objected to or not. Henry v. Phillips, 105 Tex. 459 , 151 S.W. 533 ; Austin Bros. v. Patten, Tex.Com.App., 294 S.W. 537 ; 17 Tex.Jur., p. 512, § 211.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ex parte Wright
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.